Monday 1 Iyyar 5775 - April 20, 2015 | |
Baseball (MLB): On the pitcher's mound, Boston Red Sox' Craig Breslow has not given up any runs yet this season. Houston Astros' Scott Feldman (Jewish father) has a 0-2 won-loss record and a 6.17 earned run average. Cincinnati Reds' Jason Marquis has a 0-1 record with a 6.30 ERA. He has struck out 13 batters in 10 innings. |
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(Baseball Minor Leagues): Josh Zeid has a 2.08 ERA for Toledo, Detroit's AAA affiliate, thus far this season. |
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Basketball (NBA): Omri Casspi finished up his 6th season in the NBA on a high note, starting the last 4 games of the season, and scoring in double digits in each of them. On April 13, he scored 26 points to lead the Sacramento Kings to victory over the LA Lakers 102-92. He grabbed 9 rebounds in that game. For the season, he scored 593 points (8.9 average) and grabbed 260 rebounds (3.9 average) in 67 games, starting 19 of them. He also posted his best shooting percentage of his career, making 48.9% of his free-throws (including 40.2% of his three- pointers) and 73.3% of his free-throws. In 394 games in his career, Casspi has 3117 points and 1518 rebounds. |
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Women's Basketball (Israeli Elite League): Ashdod defeated Ramle in three straight games to win their second league championship in a row. The score of the final game of the best-of-five series, held on Thursday, April 16 was 74-55. Shay Doron scored 11 points for the victors, and Naama Shafir led the losing side with 14 points. |
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Women's Golf (LPGA): Morgan Pressel has made the cut in 7 of the 8 events she has played this year, with one top-10 finish. She has a scoring average of 71.67 for 30 rounds thus far in 2015, with a best round of 64. Pressel has earned $233,687 in 2015. |
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Ice Hockey (NHL): NJ Devils' Mike Cammalleri finished the season with 42 points (27 goals and 15 assists) in 68 games. He now has 544 points (263 goals and 281 assists) in 737 career games. Minnesota Wild's Jason Zucker came back from a serious injury and scored 3 goals in the last 3 games of the regular season. He had 26 points (21 goals and 5 assists) in 51 games. Zucker recorded a goal in the first play-off game and did not score in the second. |
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American Hockey League (AHL): The Binghamton Senators won two of their last three games of the season, and Carter Camper added an assist in each of those victories. He finished the season with 52 points (15 goals and 37 assists) in 75 games. |
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Austrian League (EBEL): Brett Sterling led his team EC Salzburg to the league championship as they defeated the Vienna Capitals in four straight games in their series. In 13 post- season games, Sterling had 21 points (10 goals and 11 assists), 26 penalty minutes, and he had a +16 rating. |
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Men's Tennis (ATP): Dudi Sela is ranked 93rd in the World. He has a 3-4 won-loss record and has earned $104,565 thus far in 2015. |
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Women's Tennis (WTA): Shahar Peer is ranked 123rd in the World. She has a singles' won-loss record of 6-9 and a doubles' record of 1-4 and has earned $53,929. Julia Glushko (Jewish father) has a 9-8 record in singles and a 3-2 record in doubles. She has earned $21,373 and is ranked 128th in the World. |